Bible Verses About Marriage
For the wedding day, the hard year, and the ordinary Tuesday in between — Scripture speaks about covenant love with more honesty than any greeting card: two people, bound up in God, learning patience together.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 gives marriage its famous picture — “two are better than one… a cord of three strands is not quickly broken” — and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describes the daily love that keeps it standing.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up! Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value. She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Scripture quoted from the Berean Standard Bible. Tap any reference to compare all four translations.